Sentences with phrase «finding by biologists»

This new finding by Biologists from Project Domino of a group of over 270 Whale Sharks between Isla Mujeres and Contoy Island makes Isla Mujeres the Whale Shark Capital of the World.

Life Science Studios was founded by biologist and artist, Julie Johnson.

Life Science Studios was founded by biologist and artist, Julie Johnson.

Sea Quest was founded by biologists and conservationists dedicated to preserving the marine environment.

If there is a healthy nesting Turtle found by the biologists they will allow 1 group to come and view the process for about 15 minutes.

Life Science Studios was founded by biologist and artist, Julie Johnson.

An official report, based on findings by biologists and teams of dogs that combed the Ivanpah facility, documenting and categorizing every bird death, has since shown the impact to be low.

Not exact matches

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

Nice to know you by Malou Henriksen - Lacey and Juan J. Giner - Casares, 11 September 2015 A biologist and a materials scientist found unexpected scientific and personal benefits when they struck up a collaboration.

She latched onto the SCARB1 gene, inspired by a 2002 study in which MIT molecular biologist Monty Krieger found that mice engineered to lack that gene were more prone to heart attacks.

«If intelligent design is injected into the classroom by political means, it will be the first step towards a complete politicization of everything in science,» says Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller, author of Finding Darwin's God, who testified for the Dover plaintiffs.

This substantiates the earlier finding made by molecular biologists in EURAC that Ötzi had a strong genetic predisposition to cardiovascular diseases and that this was probably also the main reason for his general arteriosclerosis.

Find out at the monthly Brains and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by Georgia State University, when biologist Mary Kennedy discusses the complex brain pathways that allow us to create memories.

Biologists and clergy are being radicalized by the same shared belief, a sign that we find ourselves on the brink of committing irrevocable acts.

Biologists from London's Medical Research Council are trying to find the answer — by looking at the past.

The first clue that digits and penises might be birds of a feather came in 1991, when a team led by developmental biologist Denis Duboule of the University of Geneva and Pierre Chambon of the Institute for Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France, found that some mice with a mutated gene, called hoxd13, had abnormally small digits and malformed penises.

As a young biologist studying how wounds heal, Min Zhao found that he could quicken cellular repairs by exposing an injury to electricity.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

Other biologists are astonished by the findings.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

But a 2010 study led by Australian biologists, including Bowman, and colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan found that L. mariae was genetically identical to L. rigida.

In 2011, James Collins, a systems biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, found that some bacteria unfazed by antibiotics are actually just less metabolically active than their sensitive counterparts and aren't energized enough to ingest the drugs.

Recently a team led by Princeton University biologist Simon Levin found a big clue to this scientific puzzle.

However, new research led by evolutionary biologist Jay Storz of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has found that whether a given mutation is good or bad is often determined by other mutations associated with it.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

In 2010 biologist Valerie Hu of the George Washington University Medical Center and her colleagues found that brains of people with autism have low levels of a protein produced by a gene called retinoic acid — related orphan receptor - alpha (RORA).

To find out if birds share this ability, Biro and Oxford biologist Takao Sasaki strapped GPS devices on homing pigeons and divided them into three groups: birds homing by themselves, birds flying with the same partner, and birds that switched up their partner every half dozen flights or so.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

Findings of the new study by sensory and evolutionary biologists at the University of Lincoln, UK, in collaboration with teams in Canada and France, have been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

To find out whether this was the case, Egan and a dozen co-authors led by University of Sheffield biologist Patrik Nosil conducted four years of detailed genomic and ecological tests.

The biologists» conclusions are supported by two key findings.

So when the US National Genome Project started three years ago, a group of influential molecular biologists led by James Watson decided that the sensible approach would be to concentrate first on mapping the genes and finding out their functions.

Those findings, some by evolutionary biologist Seth Bordenstein of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, show that «there's this potential for [microbes] to influence behavior in this complex and vast way,» he says.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

At the first committee meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ingber found himself surrounded by other scientists breaking boundaries — physicists publishing in biology journals, biologists in physics publications.

A team of international researchers led by a Canadian biologist has found that infection with parasites makes it harder for seafish living in coral reefs to think.

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

A March 2009 study by biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and biologist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 81 percent of the 408 new mammal species discovered in the last 15 years are yoked to local ecosystems and likely to become extinct.

Although physicists have long shared their work as preprints, biologists have been slower to embrace them for various reasons — such as fear of being scooped by the competition and concerns about releasing medical findings that haven't been vetted.

Raghu Kalluri, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson, managed to return to his lab this morning to find everything in working order: Freezers full of important samples had been protected by backup generators, and facilities housing research animals had stayed dry.

By incorporating both the area of the gecko toe pad and stiffness in their model, the biologists found it was possible to explain 92 percent of the variation in adhesive ability among a variety of gecko species.

By bringing together seemingly disparate disciplines, bioinformatics has united the foot soldiers of scientific research: Computer scientists find themselves sharing coffee with gene hunters, programmers sit in on molecular biology seminars, and biologists and technologists share bylines on research papers.

It had a unique lab run by someone I found totally fascinating: John Paul Scott, a biologist in the psychology department who had done more work than anyone else on social attachments in dogs.

Biologist Michael Seibert and his colleagues found they could activate hydrogenase during photosynthesis by withholding sulfate.

«What we found is a fish with an amazing tolerance to anoxia and hydrogen sulfide that literally holds its breath on the seafloor by day — where it eats lots of carbon - rich mud,» says biologist Mark Gibbons of the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa, another participant in the study.

A research team led by cancer biologist Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, found that overexpression of a protein called TRAF6 in hematopoietic (blood) cells drives the onset of MDS.

A 2012 study on the U.S. biomedical workforce, requested by NIH and led by Princeton University molecular biologist Shirley Tilghman, found that the output of biomedical Ph.D. s exceeded the supply of academic jobs.